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Email	imagination [at] lancaster [dot] ac [dot] uk
Tel.	+44 (0) 1524 510873
Address	ImaginationLancaster LICA Building Lancaster University Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK

Research

Themes

Current Research Activities

A Practice-Based Approach to Sustainable Design Research Exploring new creative directions in product design to include sustainable principles.

Creative Exchange Creating New Contexts for Growth in the Experience Economy

Design and Production for Sustainability Research into the nature and form of functional objects

Design Fiction: The Movie EPSRC Project Highlighting Imagination Research in Design Fiction

Design For Europe Design For Europe aims to increase the use of design for innovation and growth across Europe.

Design Routes Envisioning the future of culturally significant designs, products and practices

Design Value: The Role of Design in Innovation Exploring the roles design can play in innovation and the conditions enabling those roles

FictionWare For all your future Design Fiction needs!

Lancaster China Catalyst Programme Lancaster University is embarking on a new initiative to leverage its global reach for the benefit of UK ...

Leapfrog: transforming public sector engagement by design The Leapfrog project will be a close collaboration with public sector and community partners to design and ...

Liveable Cities Transforming the Engineering of Cities for Global and Societal Wellbeing

Mobile Utopia Co-creation research project to creatively analyse and explore alternative futures.

PETRAS Privacy, Ethics, Trust, Reliability, Acceptability, and Security

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Innovation

Current Innovation Activities

Creative Exchange Creating New Contexts for Growth in the Experience Economy

Design For Europe Design For Europe aims to increase the use of design for innovation and growth across Europe.

Design Routes Envisioning the future of culturally significant designs, products and practices

Design Value: The Role of Design in Innovation Exploring the roles design can play in innovation and the conditions enabling those roles

Lancaster China Catalyst Programme Lancaster University is embarking on a new initiative to leverage its global reach for the benefit of UK ...

Leapfrog: transforming public sector engagement by design The Leapfrog project will be a close collaboration with public sector and community partners to design and ...

Mobile Utopia Co-creation research project to creatively analyse and explore alternative futures.

ReWiiRe Research for Wii Rehabilitation

What if? Design Fictions for Society Imagining the future implications of policy initiatives in creative ways.

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People

ImaginationLancaster Staff

Pam Allen Project Manager: The Creative Exchange

Bijan Aryana Design Thinking, User Experience, Emerging Design, Country-specific Design, International Design

Christopher Boyko Urban Design and Behaviour, Cities, Digital Technology/Internet of Things, Regeneration, Space and Place, Town Planning, Urban Sustainability, Wellbeing

Dan Burnett Research Through Design, Game Design, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Modelling

Monika Büscher Sociology / Anthropology / Cultural studies of mobilities, Technology (futures), Video Ethnography and Design, Ethnomethodological studies

John Chisholm Innovation, Design Management, European Policy, Business Support

Stephen Clune Design for Sustainability, Design and Behavioural Change

Rachel Cooper Design Management, Design Policy, Design Thinking, Urban Design, Urban Sustainability, Socially Responsible Design, Design Against Crime, Design & Manufacture

Paul Coulton Speculative Design, Design Fiction, Game Design, Design as Rhetoric, Research through Design, Design Futures, Play, Toys

Claire Coulton Liveable Cities and N8 Project Officer

Gemma Coupe Design Manager, Leapfrog

Leon Cruickshank Open Design and Innovation, User Centred and User-Led Design, Interactive Design, Technology and Society, Design Methodology, Design Theory and Philosophy

Nick Dunn Urban Design, Design Thinking, Design & Manufacturing, Mapping, Visualisation, Speculative Design, Future Cities

David Hands Design Policy Development; Design Briefing; Design Leadership; Designing against Crime; New Product Development.

Ricardo J. Hernandez Design Management, Innovation, Sustainable Design, Product-Service Systems, Design Process

Rachael Hill Design Visualiser

Naomi Jacobs Senior Research Associate, The Creative Exchange

Jeyon Jung Design Management, Design Thinking, Service Design, Design for Sustainability, Design & Culture

Laura Morris

Lakshmi Priya Rajendran Architecture and Urban design, Identity and belonging, Superdiversity, Comparative Urban Studies, Socio-spatial practices, Space and Place, Environmental Psychology,Critical Social and Digital media

Daniel Richards Design & Manufacturing, Generative Design, Visualisation, Computational Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Fabrication, Speculative Design

Paul Rodgers Design Disruption, Design and Care, Social Innovation, Disciplinarity, Design Interventions

Emmanuel Tsekleves Design for Health & Wellbeing, Design for Ageing, Design Interactions, Design Fictions, Playful Design, Gamification, Digital Design

Stuart Walker Design for Sustainability ; Design, Values & Spirituality

Roger Whitham Human-Computer Interaction, Visualisation, Interactive Structures, Collaborative Tools, Virtual Work Environments, Facilitation

Poone Yazdanpanah Design for Sustainability, Tradition and Transition, Meanings and Values, Crafts and Architecture

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Study

BA Design

Masters Programme

PhD Programme

Lancaster University

PETRAS

Privacy, Ethics, Trust, Reliability, Acceptability, and Security for the Internet of Things.

Stories 2 Connect

Enabling children and young people at the margins of society to tell their own stories.

Mobile Utopia

Co-creation research project to creatively analyse and explore alternative futures.

Leapfrog

Transforming public sector engagement by design.

China Catalyst Programme

Revitalising the UK’s position in the global exports market.

We are...

An open and exploratory design-led research centre at Lancaster University

We conduct applied and theoretical research into people, products, places and their interactions.

We work with a variety of organisations to provide fresh perspectives on real-world issues and facilitate innovation.

We offer Undergraduate, Masters, and PhD study opportunities. All our staff are active researchers with extensive expertise in teaching.

Liveable Cities facilitates important Birmingham workshops

Event19 days ago

1^st of November 2016, Highbury Hall, Birmingham

Birmingham City Council creating 'bottom-up' natural captial plan using design methods

The Liveable Cities team from Lancaster went to Birmingham on 2 November to facilitate two workshops on behalf of Birmingham City Council. The...Read full update

Presentations at Alzheimer Europe Conference..

..attract a lot of attention!

The presentation of the work related to participatory design fiction as a tool to engage the public in debate on dementia-friendly futures and the Ageing Playfully cards have generated a lot of interest at the Alzheimer Europe Conference in Denmark. The...Read full update

Ageing Playfully Cards

OutcomeDigital or Visual Products

The Ageing Playfully Cards offer a number of practical recommendations in playful co-creation workshops for people with dementia and memory problems. These have been developed as a result of the insights gained during the Ageing Playfully research project. ...More information

Best Paper Award for Cooper and Boyko!

Rachel Cooper and Christopher Boyko received the Best Paper Award 2016 in Urban Design and Planning journal

Prof. Rachel Cooper OBE and Dr. Christopher Boyko (alongside their co-authors: two colleagues from the University of Birmingham - Prof. ...Read full update

Playful design and design fictions in healthcare

Invited talks in S.Korea Universities

Dr Emmanuel Tsekleves was invited to present his research work on design in healthcare as well as playful design and design fictions in two guest lectures at the EWHA and Hongik University in S. Korea. The lectures delivered to undergraduate, postgraduate...Read full update

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RT @ProfTriviality: At Belfast School of Art today taking about @cxhub project Cold Sun https://t.co/PbJc3AWdwU we did with @wearemudlark

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RT @StuartWalkerUK: Reviving a medieval Italian village via @reuterspictures https://t.co/y5C4KNK6lt @martyn_evans @pyazdanpanah @Jeyon_Jung

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RT @_Design4Change: The Ageing Playfully Cards 4 running creative workshops with people with #dementia are available https://t.co/AE6N6u93T…

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RT @ProfTriviality: New book chapter out 'Mapping the Beach Beneath the Street: Digital Cartography for the Playable City' https://t.co/SEF…

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RT @ProfTriviality: Paper 'Game Vapourware as Design Fictions' from me and @joegalen is online from ACM https://t.co/NcpJuFHG0U

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RT @LancasterUni: Mix tape magic given 21st Century twist – @ImaginationLanc’s Professor Paul Coulton on @Reuters TV: https://t.co/hzDtyDVX…